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 Volunteerism help reduce poverty says un repsalisbury, Zimbabwe: Republic of Zimbabwe has great potentiality to reduce poverty among communities through promoting and support volunteer activities as many of its people are volition to donate their valuable time and resources to aid others, United Nations representative said. Addressing participants to a shop organised by the United Nations military volunteer (UNV) program and the military volunteer Services oversea in salisbury last week, United Nations deputy sheriff resident representative Mr Lare Sisay said it was important for Republic of Zimbabwe to develop a subject framework to guide and regulate volunteer activities in the state. "The potentiality for volunteering in Republic of Zimbabwe is very high and many people are volition to donate their valuable time and resources to military volunteer to aid others," he said. Mr Sisay said Republic of Zimbabwe also had the potentiality to cope with the HIV and Aids pandemic thorough mobilising volunteers to provide care, treatment and support to people infected and affected by the pandemic. He noted that one thousand of volunteer home-based care givers in Republic of Zimbabwe were presently donating their time and attempt daily in mitigating the consequence of HIV and Aids on patients and household as well as society at large. It was through the part of such selfless people that the state had made remarkable progress in reduction the prevalence rate of the pandemic from more than 34 percentage to 15,6 percentage over the past five years, he said. Mr Sisay said recent studies in other state had revealed that the non-profit sector including volunteers was accounting for about 5 percent of the Gross domestic help Product. "This shows the enormous potential military volunteer contributions can make on the development of a state," he said. He said in some state volunteers were found at all degree of society from community to subject with some professional person such as attorney and checkup doctors contributing their services to people who could not afford. Although expatriates who came to Zimbabwe to work mostly in the areas of education and health soon after independence popularised volunteerism in the country, the concept was not a new phenomenon in the country as communities had a longstanding tradition of assisting the vulnerable in society. The concept is more widespread in rural areas where children are taught at an early age to view all elderly persons as their parents who should be assisted with household chores. More Volunteer Abroad Articles |